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Monday, March 15, 2010

What the?

I have lived in Australia for just shy of 9 years.. and still, to this day.. some things truly surprise me and make me rethink, “What am I doing here?”

I had to take a photo of this receipt for work… its to help start the crane.. we have something similar in the USA, but for the life of me, I cant think of the name… but I do know that its not called, “START YA BARSTARD”

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And yes.. Australia seems to add and  S to some words, normally, in my native USA land, we would say things such as BASTARD or ASS.. but here.. its BARSTARD or ARSE.. apparently its less offensive….. which Im not convinced of. I mean really, if your going to mention my ass or call me an ass, I would rather you could enunciate it properly.

But, I have to admit, I did have a laugh today at this receipt.  Some days, this country can still surprise me.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

That is SO funny! Made my day. Diane H

InALittleMinute said...

Glad you liked it.. it was just too good to not share!

JEZ said...

Start the crane? You were starting a crane? Love the receipt. The US is too uptight and censored to be that funny!

K.Pete said...

omgosh - LOL!!!!! I laughed out loud.